The Phoenix Lottery
Shortlisted for the 2001 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.In a desperate attempt to save his foundering charity and to exorcise a few personal demons Canadian philanthropist Junior Beamish creates a lottery in which the winner gets to publicly torch an original van Gogh. A grand comedy about art, commerce and untidy family relationships, The Phoenix Lottery sweeps from Mafia hits in postwar Italy to postmillennial Vatican intrigue by way of revolutionary Cuba, Bay Street backstabs, a seance on Baffin Island, and a Port Elgin S&M bed and breakfast.
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Shortlisted for the 2001 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour.In a desperate attempt to save his foundering charity and to exorcise a few personal demons Canadian philanthropist Junior Beamish creates a lottery in which the winner gets to publicly torch an original van Gogh. A grand comedy about art, commerce and untidy family relationships, The Phoenix Lottery sweeps from Mafia hits in postwar Italy to postmillennial Vatican intrigue by way of revolutionary Cuba, Bay Street backstabs, a seance on Baffin Island, and a Port Elgin S&M bed and breakfast.
